1948
Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (born 1896)
Torsten Lars Herman Jamte Bergström was a Swedish film director and theater and film actor.
Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (born 1896)
The 1940s
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1948
May Whitty, English actress (born 1865)
Dame Mary Louise Webster, known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two w…
May Whitty, English actress (born 1865)
1948
József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (born 1874)
József Klekl was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest from Prekmurje and politician in Hungary, writer, governor of the Slovene People's Party (Slovenska lüdska stranka), later a delega…
József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (born 1874)
1948
Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (born 1900)
Alex Gard was a Russian American cartoonist. He was a regular cartoonist for newspapers, magazines and books, but is most well known for his celebrity caricatures at Sardi's restau…
Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (born 1900)
1948
Karl Gebhardt, German physician (born 1897)
Karl Franz Gebhardt was a German physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps a…
Karl Gebhardt, German physician (born 1897)
1948
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (born 1903)
Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many c…
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (born 1903)
1948
Viktor Brack, German physician (born 1904)
Viktor Hermann Brack was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; th…
Viktor Brack, German physician (born 1904)
1948
Karl Brandt, German SS officer (born 1904)
Karl Brandt was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany. Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's "escort doctor…
Karl Brandt, German SS officer (born 1904)
1948
Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (born 1905)
Wolfram Sievers was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945. He was convicted of war cri…
Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (born 1905)
1948
Louis Lumière, French film director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1864)
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière, were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion pic…
Louis Lumière, French film director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1864)
1948
Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (born 1909)
Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are consid…
Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (born 1909)
1948
Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (born 1891)
William Edward Brooker was a Labor Party politician. He became the interim Premier of Tasmania on 19 December 1947 while Robert Cosgrove was facing corruption charges. He died on 1…
Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (born 1891)
1948
William C
Major General William Carey Lee was a senior United States Army officer who fought in World War I and World War II, during which he commanded the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed…
William C
1948
Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (born 1873)
Dorothea Frances Bleek was a German–South African anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen of Southern Africa.
Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (born 1873)
1948
Prince Sabahaddin, Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (born 1879)
Sultanzade Mehmed Sabahaddin was an Ottoman prince, sociologist, and intellectual. Because of his threat to the ruling House of Osman, of which he was a member, and his political a…
Prince Sabahaddin, Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (born 1879)
1948
Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (born 1904)
Achille Varzi was an Italian racing driver. He is remembered as the winner of the 1933 Monaco Grand Prix, as well as the winner of the first Formula One Grand Prix at the 1946 Turi…
Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (born 1904)
1948
Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (born 1882)
José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo but he had been previo…
Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (born 1882)
1948
Carole Landis, American actress (born 1919)
Carole Landis was an American actress. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million…
Carole Landis, American actress (born 1919)
1948
Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (born 1871)
Petrus Josephus Mattheus "Piet" Aalberse Sr. was a Dutch politician of the General League of Roman Catholic Electoral Associations, later the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and …
Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (born 1871)
1948
Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (born 1888)
Louis Émile Clément Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to w…
Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (born 1888)
1948
John J. Pershing, American general (born 1860)
John Joseph Pershing, nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American army general, educator, and founder of the Pershing Rifles. He served as the commander of the American Expeditionary F…
John J. Pershing, American general (born 1860)
1948
Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (born 1877)
Herman Gregorius Gummerus was a leading Finnish classical scholar, diplomat, and one of the founders of the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL).
Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (born 1877)
1948
Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (born 1904)
Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter. At first influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Gorky's later work presaged and exerted a seminal influence on abstract…
Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (born 1904)
1948
Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (born 1909)
Rūdolfs Jurciņš was a Latvian basketball player. He played as a center.
Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (born 1909)